Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long hours consumed in the dispute were turned into a prime-time display of partisan maneuvering. The Nixon sup porters sought to delay a final vote, hoping to discredit and dis courage the majority, perhaps even win back one or two of their strayed Republicans. Since the loyalists were demanding facts, many Democrats used their turn at the microphones to spin out the litany, as they saw it, of Nixon's misdeeds. Most able of all at this was California's Waldie, whose sporadic running narrative was dismissed by Republican Wiggins as "Waldie's fable...
...general debate, the first sidetracking stemmed from an attempt by Republican McClory to delay proceedings for ten days if the President would promptly agree to give the House Judiciary Committee the same tapes he had been ordered by the Supreme Court to yield to Federal Judge John J. Sirica for use by Special Prosecutor Jaworski in the impending Watergate cover-up trial. Actually, McClory conceded that he had little expectation of a favorable response from Nixon. McClory's tactic was aimed at strengthening a contempt of Congress article against the President he planned to introduce. The motion was defeated...
...Nixon now remains at least a small possibility. St. Clair told reporters after the Supreme Court arguments that he did not know whether the President would yield. It would seem more politically expedient, and more in keeping with previous tactics, for Nixon to cooperate in principle?and then delay actual delivery of the tapes as long as possible. St. Clair seemed to suggest that possibility when he said that it might take two months for the 64 tapes to be submitted for screening by Federal Judge John J. Sirica if Sirica's original order to produce the tapes is sustained...
...center groups and independent technocrats. But the government simply could not govern. Divided, buffeted by an annual 30% inflation rate and demands for price controls and sweeping economic reforms, lacking in political experience and hobbled by an A.F.M. requirement of unanimity on all projects, it could only talk and delay...
...picket line was only one of a dozen that cropped up at training camps across the nation last week as the N.F.L. Players Association-backed by most of the league's veterans-put pressure on owners to meet contract demands. At a minimum, the dispute threatens to delay the start of the exhibition season. At a maximum, the confrontation could wipe out an entire season and change the basic structure of the league...